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“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
- Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption : A Story from Different Seasons
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4e8TjBLsJc
It's Only Pain by Katie Melua
INTROSPECTIVE
If I climbed the highest mountain until I couldn't see the ground
If I swam the deepest ocean to a love that wasn't found
If I dug the deepest hole to buried treasure underground
If I sung the sweetest melody that echoed all around
If I screamed the loudest scream but didn't make a sound
If I recited all the poetry from my heart that knows no bounds
Would I see you on the mountain or would you still be on the ground
Would you swim beside me with the dolphins that we found
Would you open up the treasure chest with the key left on the mound
Would you sing in perfect harmony and dance and turn around
Would you fill the air with your sweet voice or leave the emptiness abound
Would you make my poems rhyme with yours with sweetness of your sounds
What if I never climb the mountain, what if I never swim the sea
What if I never lift a shovel or dig a tunnel straight to thee
What if I never sing a lullaby or whisper in your ear
What if the scream I make is as silent as my gently flowing tears
What if the poems, prose and words I write are simply emptiness
What if loneliness and sorrow end in silence; empty promises
Could we climb a different mountain; find a different kind of love
Could we swim in warmer water; where the sunshine is above
Could we bury all the treasures of a love that cannot be
Could we sing a different song of friendship; harmony
Could we cease to scream inside our heads and find peace in silent reverie
Could we form a Poet's Corner and speak quietly of our hearts so free
I like to think there is a better way, where words are not required
I like to think that I can convey my feelings with my eyes
I like to think that unconditional love means I can let you go
I like to think that you will live a life so happy and I can make it so
I like to think that in many years I will still be here
I like to think my memories of you will keep me warm, my dear
So with these thoughts and words of mine I journey on my way
So I can fight the fight within me, so I can have my say
So I can find the strength I know is waiting for the chance
So I can find the will in me, to let go; begin a different dance
So I can find a better way to find true happiness
So I can find the final hurdle and leap it; then I am blessed.
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in the quiet of the early morning, this minimalist scene at a stainless steel pool invites a moment of reflection. the interplay of the sleek handrail, gently rippling water, and the clean lines of the pool deck creates a harmonious balance between form and function. the simplicity of the composition, captured with the hasselblad x2d, draws the viewer into a serene and introspective space. the image is a study in contrast and subtlety, where the man-made meets nature, and stillness becomes a canvas for contemplation.
From family dinners with 30 people to the solitude of solitary births. The Covid has changed everything
Natale Covid
Dalle cene di famiglia con 30 persone alla solitudine dei natali solitari. Il covid ha cambiato tutto
Some people say that long exposure shots of jetties are done to death. But, is there anything that feeds or soul that is ever done to death? Does a pondering point such as the edge of a jetty ever cease to attract us? Does our need to react with a different type of environment ever dies? Jetties are not to be perceived merely as another subject, to me, they are the starting point of a destination for the soul, a path to an introspective state. Under such situations, some experience the state of "satori"...
I don't want to go to work today.
I want to pack up snacks, blankets, sketchbooks, and a camera. I want to walk down this path and find a spot to settle in for the day. I want to be creative and introspective.
But I will have to be satisfied with looking at this picture and imagining a different day in my mind...
(Textures by Distressed Jewell)
captured in the early morning hours at hotel sonnwies in südtirol, this photograph is a study in simplicity and calm. with its crisp lines and gentle reflections, it transforms an ordinary pool into a space of quiet contemplation. the straight-edge railing slices through the frame, creating a sense of infinite depth and balance, while the stillness of the water evokes a moment of serene introspection. shot with the leica m11 monochrom and 50mm summilux f/1.4 asph, the image celebrates the beauty of minimalism in black and white, where every detail whispers rather than shouts.
For the March challenge for 12 Months For Dogs group, we were asked for a different perspective or viewpoint, which gave a lot of scope to be creative.
Yes, left it to the last minute again ... found it hard to choose which pic to post as so many different approaches could've been used.
Finally decided on this one, mainly because I wanted to keep in the flow of my farm series for now.
On first joining Flickr, I was so captivated by Marco Sgarbi's 'Merammano' images on his own farm in Italy.
I've done mostly and many of Miss W as the show pony/diva/Dogue cover girl, or chuckling, Happy Face MW, so this is a break away from my usual style of her, more thoughtful, introspective …. ignoring me and the camera for a change.
I look at this one and I'm reminded that Merammas, along with other livestock guardians like the Great Pyranees and Kuvasz, are an Old World Breed with a history of thousands of years.
And with that comes a certain stoicism and endurance in character.
Definitely inspired by Marco..
(Tho' I have to laugh ... the other day on our walk, a little girl declared loudly to her mother, "Look Mummy, there's a wolf over there!"
Gosh, it brought up such an old memory from probably back in kindergarten, 1963, a school playground game we used to play, called Whitie The WonderDog, where this hero dog - yes, pure white - would go rescue people in trouble…
Where on earth did we get this idea from?
I'm sure none of us had TV yet and most certainly hadn't even heard of The Adventures of TinTin…)
Well anyway, a reflective mood for Lent and Passover/Pesach....
Enjoy your week, everyone x
BTW, no edits ..
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Armada, so this chap was adjusting this aquatic sculpture, being directed by what I believe was the artist, not as easy as it seems!
Near the city of Sagres, Portugal
I have just returned from a few days of vacation and adventure in Portugal. Unfortunately the weather has not been helpful and only a few shots are worth. I want to say thank you to the Portughese people, very nice and gentle, I hope to came back early!
I must admit it was a very introspective trip, alone as I like .. but I hope in a good company for the next trip.
I think this photo represents all my travel and my life time now. The young surfer who walks with his head down .. building a road... destroyed by the sea.
I learned a lot from this experience both for me and photographically. In the coming weeks I will upload new pictures, I just need time to review them. Thanks all for many comments, now I will also review your photostream.
Have a great Week End!
Update: on Explore!! thanks!!
One shot, no color correction.
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A young lady sits with her dogs taking time for a portrait
Prompt: Create an ultra-realistic digital fine art painting in vertical aspect ratio, inspired by classical oil portraiture with museum-quality lighting and texture.
Depict a young African American woman seated beside a white west highland terrier and a salt and pepper Schnauzer dog in a calm, dignified indoor setting. The woman wears a long, elegant white lace dress with delicate embroidery and a high neckline, evoking 19th-century fashion. She sits gracefully, holding a bouquet of flowers in her lap, her expression serene and introspective. Her posture is upright and composed, exuding quiet strength and refinement.
Beside her, the dogs have a calm, intelligent demeanor and sit attentively, its gaze directed forward.
Behind them stands a large, dark iron industrial boiler door embossed with engraved lettering, adding depth and contrast to the otherwise soft and painterly environment. The textured metal surface contrasts beautifully with the woman’s white dress and the floral tones of her bouquet.
The lighting is natural yet subdued, softly illuminating the woman’s face and the dog’s coat while casting gentle shadows across the floor and background.
The style should emulate realistic skin tones and fabric rendering. Capture the emotional stillness and quiet nobility of the scene, timeless, contemplative, and painterly.
Style: Digital fine art painting
Mood: Serene, dignified, introspective
Lighting: Soft diffused studio light, natural tonal balance
Quality: Ultra-realistic, no noise, no grain, museum-quality detail
This digital fine art was created using OpenAI Sora AI and Photoshop
you can’t photograph someone’s gaze without them knowing — not really. this isn’t just a portrait, it’s a pressure point. it bends the space between subject and viewer until presence becomes mutual. time slips out through the grain, and what remains is the kind of tension only silence explains.
Here is what I really like about the Song Man...his humility. He wasn't a fancy singer, arguable not America Idol material. I think he is missing teeth based on the whistle in evident in the sound; but he sang with a smile. He sang for the love of singing. He was passionate...He belted out his music even if there was nobody around. He made me think and feel how much we, "I" over complicate things rather than just enjoy. Introspectively, I have to sometime wonder, do I "sing" for the love of singing...meaning photography....sometimes admittedly so, get lost in the likes and not the love of photography. He helped me think about that. I have to do it for the passion! I love this hobby!
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I hope that you are all having a fantastic weekend of photography my Flickr friends!
"And if we follow it?" he said.
"Maybe we’ll find what we lost," she said. "Not the past, but the part of ourselves we left there."
"Together?" he said.
"Always together," she said.
Reality
There has a been a whole bunch of discussion as of late regarding what is photography, specifically in regard to processing or photo manipulation - you just need to search AIPPA and the name of a famous australian landscape photographer to get the gist of whats going on.
Its been great to see these discussions and also get a insight into what people think, not to see what side people are on, if thats even possible since to have sides there must be a line, but more to understand what is the drive behind them when they generate images.
It has also been interesting from a introspective view trying to understand what I enjoy about photography and drives me to continue doing it, for me its the process of being out there and taking the image and also the interpretation of that image through the processing, from a long exposure, to panoramic to a... dare I say it.. tiny planet or whatever, whatever I can come up with :) the final result, the finished image which gets dumped on social media, is but a mere 5% of the whole process and reason. That said its awesome for a having a timeline and collection of images since I could not organise or find any image on my hard drive beyond a few months ;)
so here we have a picture from Geiranger, Norway, its a wide angle panorama, using 4 frames to get the wide angle, each frame was bracketed to give 3 images, (one over exposed, one normally exposed and one under exposed) these were then automatically aligned and then manually blended (to preserve the bright areas and keep the dark areas) - is it reality? dunno, what if the mountains were tweaked to make them bigger ? everyone has a line when it comes to photography and art, simply because it might not be the same as your line does not make it right or wrong, just different - and just like opinions, this is just one :)
Today's musical selection comes from 1974: Bob Desper - Darkness Is Like A Shadow.
The day before walking into Rex recording studios, Desper went out and bought a brand new Martin D-28 acoustic guitar. New Sounds was recorded in one take. Some selections, in fact, were improvised on the spot. Wayne Lund, Co-owner of Rose City Sound and Producer of a handful of RCS releases (the label that originally released New Sounds), recalled Bob fondly: “He was a neat, neat guy . . . introspective” with “a marvelous touch on his strings.” “He was beyond playing the notes. . . . a tremendous talent,” an artist who “could communicate.” (source)
Snoqualmie Pass, WA
Berlin, Gardens of the World, Chinese Garden Cabinet "Dule Yuan": Looking from the fountain pavilion over the watercourse to the mirror wall at the other end
"Die Beschäftigung des Menschen mit sich selbst ist nicht erst seit dem Aufpoppen von Yogastudios und Meditations-Apps en vogue. Die introspektive und unabhängige Denkweise war z. B. bereits ein zentrales Element der gelungenen Lebensführung chinesischer Gelehrter. Sima Guang, Politiker, Historiker und Gelehrter aus der chinesischen Song-Dynastie, erschuf im 11. Jahrhundert einen Garten, der dieser Lebensführung angeblich besonders zuträglich war: den Dule Yuan, übersetzt in etwa „Garten des abgeschiedenen Vergnügens“. In einem Aufsatz beschrieb er die Struktur und die landschaftlichen Höhepunkte des Gartens. Seither kommt dem Dule Yuan ein herausragender Platz in der chinesischen Gartenbaugeschichte zu.Die Gestaltung des Gartens geht zurück auf ein Gemälde des Dule Yuan aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Seine geometrische Achsenstruktur setzt sich aus einem Bambuspfad, einer rechteckigen Platzfläche und einem Wasserkanal zusammen. Blickfang und beliebtes Fotomotiv des Gartens ist die modern gestaltete, stählerne und in Gold lackierte Bambushütte, die sich harmonisch in die sanfte Geometrie der sie umgebenden Gartenlandschaft einfügt. Durch die umliegenden Spiegelflächen entsteht eine vertikale Tiefe, die die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Natur verschwimmen lässt. Ganz im Sinne des Dule Yuan sind die Spiegelflächen außerdem Schnittpunkte zwischen Realität und Imagination, zwischen Sehen und Gesehenwerden. Dieses fließende Raumbewusstsein ist es, was die spirituelle Essenz chinesischer Gärten ausmacht."
Beschreibung übernommen von der Website der Gärten der Welt
www.gaertenderwelt.de/gaerten-architektur/internationale-...
"The preoccupation of humans with themselves hasn’t only been in fashion since the advent of yoga studios and meditation apps. Introspective and independent ways of thinking were, for example, already a central element of the way of life of Chinese scholars. Sima Guang, politician, historian and scholar of the Chinese Song dynasty, created a garden in the 11th century that was said to be particularly beneficial to this lifestyle: the Dule Yuan, translated as "Garden of Secluded Pleasure". In an essay he described the structure and landscape highlights of the garden. Since then, the Dule Yuan has maintained a pre-eminent position in Chinese horticultural history.The design of the garden is based on a painting by Dule Yuan from the 16th century. Its geometric axis structure is composed of a bamboo path, a rectangular plaza and a water channel. The garden's eye-catching and popular photo spot is the modern designed steel bamboo hut painted in gold, which blends in harmoniously with the gentle geometry of the surrounding garden landscape. The surrounding mirror surfaces create a vertical depth that blurs the boundary between man and nature. In the spirit of the Dule Yuan, the mirror surfaces are also intersections between reality and imagination, between seeing and being seen. This fluid awareness of space is what makes up the spiritual essence of Chinese gardens."
Description taken from the web site of the Gardens of the World.
www.gaertenderwelt.de/en/gardens-architecture/internation...
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Wishing you all the best in the new year.
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"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~C.G.
This is behind a waterfall in the magical land of Iceland.
Wednesday, June 15 at 12 (noon) slt grand opening.
"INTROSPECTIVE" is a journey through the Art and Creativity of Milena Carbone, in Second Life.
Dance show with Laltiha Carbone.
Opening party with the music of мяѕ. Ɓєєявαυм (landra.beerbaum)
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. I hope that you are all having a fantastic weekend my Flickr friends. Enjoy!
Many thanks to Josh Groban for suggesting this scene in his famous rendition of "Your Raise Me Up" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnztMhtUF6o
And here's to "simple pleasures" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLTwtuBi-o
First posted on April 5, 2013
- Praia Grande, Portugal -
Rosa contemplates quietly as the sun sets ... I find she is always a little more introspective when she is at 'home.'
This was very difficult light ... what little of it that was left created a challenge for the camera but it performed very well under the circumstances. A bit of post-processing helped too (no doubt someone more proficient could have done better with the RAW file) and Rosa and I agree that this is quite close to the reality of the scene we enjoyed that evening. I wish only that you could also feel the fresh and invigorating westerly winds in our faces to truly appreciate the place that evening as we did. Thank you cousin António for rushing us to the coast in time to catch the sunset ... cousin Elsa was busy at home preparing for a trip to Angola and also preparing yet another delicious meal for us!
each monday, my class pins up their projects corresponding to the weekly theme and then we critique. professor jean-paul bourdier starts us off with some words and then we launch into the critique.
when i read the description (scroll down to about the middle, see 'vis std 186b') i thought, 'ah! c'est parfait pour moi! c'est exactement où je suis maintenent. trop parfait.' and, as i am finding more and more, i was right. this class, along with the rest of them, is teaching me so much about the world and also about myself simultaneously, which i am realizing is simply the beauty of our existence; as we are able to search introspectively, we become more able to project these realizations and comprehend the world outside of ourselves. i am becoming more whole with every experience i am having. the more, the more. and i am delighted at the things i am discovering.
on a more technical note, i am learning through this particular class that the narrative behind the image is not relevant. as jean-paul says, 'forget about the author.' that being said, i will not try to relate what my thoughts were in the process of this image. i will allow it to speak to you for itself. and for this purpose also, i will title them with the name of the assignment, rather than my interpretation.